A Divide Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Each one has a drive to belong to some.
The need to belong to some ones creates
The other category as a result.
The need to identify with some ones
Form the other category to stay.
Each inside you make will leave an outside.
Each circle you form will carve one outside.
Otherwise also you carve yourself from the rest.
Family, regions, caste, and religions
Are the circles you make and get stuck to them.
We all stand unfailingly on the spectrum
Of Belonging versus Otherness, a divide.
12.03.2016.